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Actually I don't believe it is irresponsible at all. Of course some people have ridiculously high cholesterol and may live to be 100. They are not the norm. You cannot make statements about a population using the ends of the bell curve as examples.
I will tell you that if you take a population of Americans and give them all total cholesterols of 300 at the age of 30, many if not most of them will have significant CAD by the time they hit age 60. A significant number will have had cardiac events and some will be dead.
Now, my selection of the age of 65 was a bit tongue in cheek, but the answer to the question is correct. Lowering cholesterol improves morbidity and mortality across the board.
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Rick
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